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Anonymus 25

12:05 AM

Mussolini is a dictator, not sure how that helps though :/

AncientSwordRage

1:02 AM

@Anonymus25 there's quite a few of them historically

prorogued fits D + PROROGUE, but nothing else

Sphinx

1:19 AM

Q: Japanese Odd Sum Sudoku

The Grandmaster Puzzles blog had a recent set of "Japanese sums" puzzles, and the mechanics of those puzzles gave me the idea for a Sudoku. It's not too hard, so I hope you enjoy! The Sudoku grid below follows normal Sudoku rules. The clues on the outside of the grid are the "Japanese sums" for t...

Sphinx

2:09 AM

Q: Knight tour on a racetrack

Help the chess knight complete four clockwise laps on this racetrack, so that he lands on every square and never lands on the same square twice! The final square the knight lands on will be the same as its starting square. In other words, find a closed knight's tour on this funnily-shaped board w...

no-computers graph-theory knight-moves

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Jafe

8:49 AM

CCCC hint: the second letter is P

Anonymus 25

Is there a dictator whose name starts with SP?

AncientSwordRage

9:50 AM

@Anonymus25 spez? Seems like an unkindly description though

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msh210

1:32 PM

@Jafe spearmint? "Dictator" is a homophony indicator, and the word is "spear" heading the ending of "parləmint"; "showing" is a connector. But "terrible, terrible taste" makes no sense as a definition, so I guess I must be wrong....

John Dvorak

1:50 PM

the definition is def wrong

bobble

Q: Review queue workflows - Final release

All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and sharing your feedback along the way. With that said, this will be our final major release. In this p...

discussion review announcements

Sid

2:07 PM

It could be Oppressor for no reason other than it means Dictator and its second letter is P

Stiv

2:44 PM

@msh210 Decent shout I reckon. Spearmint can taste very bitter to some people. Maybe it's Jafe's kryptonite? (Or pickles...??)

6 hours later…

Jafe

8:42 PM

@msh210 this is actually correct, although with different wp (dictator is not an anagram indicator)

bobble

msh210 said it was a homophone, not anagram, indicator

Jafe

oh yeah i meant "not a homophone indicator"

sorry, brain still waking up

bobble

inject coffee, I hear it works wonders

Jafe

it does

Stiv

9:36 PM

@Jafe Is the intended wordplay SPEAR + MIN + (-parliamen)T instead?

Jafe

humm i was thinking (a > SPEAR)MIN plus _T but that also works

apologies for the definition, it worked better in my head

Stiv

10:07 PM

@msh210 should take the next one - all the heavy lifting (and I didn't have it spot on myself).

@Jafe So what's your beef with spearmint? :)

(Really don't recommend that flavour combination by the way - beef and mint are not good plate-fellows...)

Jafe

10:19 PM

hehe i don't mind spearmint but my kid absolutely hates it

AncientSwordRage

11:01 PM

@Jafe that part definitely thew me for 6

Sphinx

11:40 PM

Q: Secretly press different buttons

Consider a game played with 12 people. 9 are randomly assigned to Team Good and 3 to Team Evil. Players on Team Evil know their teammates, but players on Team Good don't. Two of the players on Team Good are secretly assigned devices with red and green buttons on them. Gameplay proceeds as follows...